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China’s economy grows 4.8% in third quarter as expected, but investment sees ‘rare and alarming’ drop

China’s economy grows 4.8% in third quarter as expected, but investment sees ‘rare and alarming’ drop

China Shipping containers are seen at the port of Oakland as trade tensions continue over U.S. tariffs with China, in Oakland, California, on May 12, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters BEIJING — China’s economy expanded by 4.8% in the third quarter from a year ago, matching analyst predictions despite the ongoing real estate slump. Fixed-asset investment, which includes real estate, …

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Antibiotic resistance is rising at an alarming rate : Goats and Soda : NPR

Antibiotic resistance is rising at an alarming rate : Goats and Soda : NPR

This micrograph image depicts a gastrointestinal bacteria that can become pathogenic after trauma, surgery or other disruptions. Smith Collection/Gado/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Smith Collection/Gado/via Getty Images One of the pillars of modern medicine is showing its cracks, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. Antibiotics have turned once deadly infections into minor inconveniences. They …

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Study Reveals ‘Alarming’ Rise of Superbugs in Newborn Babies : ScienceAlert

Study Reveals ‘Alarming’ Rise of Superbugs in Newborn Babies : ScienceAlert

Humanity’s war against drug-resistant microbes is not going very well. Antibiotic resistance has rapidly become one of our species’ leading causes of death, claiming an estimated 5 million lives globally in 2019. That already exceeds the yearly death toll from HIV/ AIDS or malaria, and the danger of drug-resistant infections is only expected to grow. According to a new study, …

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22 State Economies Are In or Near Recession, Alarming Report Finds – Realtor.com

22 State Economies Are In or Near Recession, Alarming Report Finds  Realtor.com 22 states are in a recession or close to it, new analysis finds  Axios Feel like you’re in a recession? It could be where you live, economist says.  USA Today The Everything Recession  The Atlantic Roughly half of U.S. states are effectively in a recession and ‘hanging on by their fingertips,’ Moody’s …

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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling to Earth every day, according to space trackers. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the US, …

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Immigration agents use increasingly aggressive tactics in Chicago, alarming activists and residents

Immigration agents use increasingly aggressive tactics in Chicago, alarming activists and residents

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city. “They are the ones that are making …

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Science news this week: Famed primatologist Jane Goodall dies, Iran sinks at an alarming rate, and scientists create human egg cells from skin

Science news this week: Famed primatologist Jane Goodall dies, Iran sinks at an alarming rate, and scientists create human egg cells from skin

Leading our coverage this week was the passing of famed primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, who died of natural causes on Wednesday (Oct. 1) at age 91. Goodall became renowned for her pioneering studies of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. She arrived at the park early in her career with no formal academic training in …

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ICE arrest reveals alarming past of Iowa school leader involving drugs and guns

ICE arrest reveals alarming past of Iowa school leader involving drugs and guns

New information revealed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows an illegal immigrant who was working as a school superintendant in Iowa has “a long record of criminal conduct in the United States.” Ian Andre Robert, of Guyana, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on September 26. Ahead of his arrest, he was making nearly $300,000 …

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